Ubuntu Smartphone Shipping in October — Smartphones running the open source Ubuntu operating system will be available to customers beginning in October 2013, according to Mark Shuttleworth, founder and CEO of Canonical Ltd. Canonical provides services for corporate customers using Ubuntu open source software.

Coming Soon to Yahoo: Ads From Google — Remember when Google and Yahoo were talking about an ad alliance last year? — Maybe they worked something out, after all: Sources say Google is set to begin running some of its AdSense display ads on Yahoo sites, and will become …

Sprint Q4: Loss widens, 1 million subscribers jump ship — Summary: The cellular giant saw its quarterly loss widen as more than 1 million subscribers left the company, thanks to the Nextel side of the business. — Zack Whittaker — Continuing its running streak of weak performance …

Google Joins JPMorgan in Seeking Software Patent Limits — Google Inc. owes its creation in part to a patented software algorithm for ranking documents in a database, issued to company founder Larry Page and owned by Stanford University. — The world's largest search-engine company contends …

Hands on with Google's new Chrome message center — The tech world's been a-buzzin' this week with word of a new Chrome-based message center from Google. Signs of the system first showed up in a Chrome OS screenshot captured by developer François Beaufort and shared on Google+.

Exclusive: Google and Twitter execs form VC fund — Google and Twitter product pros form venture capital firm. — FORTUNE — A pair of product managers from Google and Twitter are forming a new venture capital firm, Fortune has learned. — One of the two principals is Hunter Walk …

Judge Sides With Wi-Fi Patent Troll Over Cisco — Purveyors of public Wi-Fi networks beware. The federal case that was supposed to bring a halt to patent troll Innovatio IP Ventures LLC's ongoing shakedown of hotels, restaurants, coffee shops and the like took a strange turn this week …

The ‘Chromebook Pixel’? Not so fast, bucko — Some days, you've just gotta love the Internet. — Today's bit of Web-fueled insanity revolves around a supposedly top-secret Google device called the “Chromebook Pixel.” A video showing the device appeared online this afternoon and quickly turned into a hot topic of discussion.